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As we all know, unless you are fortunate enough to have content on a client site go viral due to its sheer brilliance, link building is a time intense activity. Positioning yourself in a niche, building great content, approaching a webmaster for a link– these things don’t happen in the blink of an eye. But I’ve established an excellent way to work on link building campaigns that takes less time than it would to do all the work alone. The answer is simple – university students. These anxious young minds are jumping for work experience, and link building is a relatively simple task where their success can be easily measured as you give them a head start in the marketing industry. University students are Internet savvy, decent writers, and cheap in comparison to link-building companies and consultants. The saying “you get what you pay for” does spring to mind, but they aren’t hard to train – they’re used to learning new material. It’s important to note that especially in this economy, university students are having a harder time finding work experience – which can work to our link-building agenda’s advantage. Step 1: Find the Career Office of a Local University Universities are eager to reach out to local businesses in order to connect their student with opportunities. Take advantage of this! Most schools have intra-net job sites, where you can post your “Link Building Trainee” opening at no cost. Step 2: Explain Link Building to Your New Charge Once I’ve selected Link Builder, I email them link building resources and explain that links from reputable sources are a significant part of a search engine’s algorithm. The more they understand what an important part of SEO links are, the more empowered they’ll feel to do their job well. Step 3: Identify Linkable Content The student must understand what parts of the site make for strong content and to whom they appeal. Have them write a quick line or two about which target audiences are interested in the content they have identified and why. Step 4: Proposed Websites Depending on how much control you want to exercise, it may be a good idea to have your student draw up a list of websites they propose to contact BEFORE they do it. If the student has understood the target audiences, this step should be easier for them to get the hang of. Step 5: Email Template or Phone Script If you’re going straight for the kill and contacting webmasters directly, show your student examples of past emails you’ve sent when link building. Naturally, they should be to the point, personalized, and demonstrate your site’s involvement/relevancy enough to convince a webmaster. If your student is phoning the website, run over with them who they should speak to and how they should present the content – it’s worth writing a script to ensure there is no confusion. Step 6: A Log It is important your student keep a log of their communication with different bloggers and webmasters. Be sure this data is in YOUR control, so if the student leaves for summer holiday or gets ill, you know who they’ve conversed with. Before I end this, I must say a word about student salary. While cheap, be fair and compensate university students for their time; at the very least reimburse them for travel and lunch when they come into the office. That said, go find yourself an aspiring Link Builder – while freeing up your time to focus on more important tasks, your Builder will be gaining valuable employment experience. Chelsea Blacker is a London based search consultant currently working at Base One Search With a background in SEO & PPC cultivated at Promediacorp in NYC, Chelsea focuses on engaging B2B brands in social media and online PR. If you want to further procrastinate from getting on with your real work, check out her current Marketing Pilgrim post You Know You Work in Search When… or say hi to her on twitter @ChelseaBlacker Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . How to Hire a University Student for Link
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by Jason Kendall What kind of things do you expect the most superior Microsoft accredited suppliers to offer a client in this country currently? Undoubtedly, the finest Microsoft authorised training routes, providing a selection of courses to take you into different areas of the IT industry. Try to discuss all the different permutations with a person who has knowledge of the commercial demands for IT staff, and is able to show you the most fruitful career to suit your abilities and character. Be sure your training is tailored to your needs and abilities. The best companies will make sure that the course is relevant to the career you want to get into. Kick out the typical salesman that recommends a training program without a thorough investigation so as to understand your abilities as well as level of experience. Make sure they can draw from a generous array of training from which they could solve your training issues. Occasionally, the level to start at for a trainee with some experience can be hugely different to the student with no experience. For those students starting IT studies and exams as a new venture, it can be helpful to ease in gradually, kicking off with a user-skills course first. Usually this is packaged with any study program. Look at the following points and pay great regard to them if you think that old marketing ploy of an ‘Exam Guarantee’ sounds great value: Obviously it’s not free – you’re still coughing up for it – the cost has just been rolled into the whole training package. People who enter their exams one by one, funding them one at a time are much more likely to pass. They’re thoughtful of the cost and take the necessary steps to ensure they are ready. Go for the best offer you can find at the time, and hang on to your cash. You’ll also be able to choose where to do your exams – so you can find somewhere local. Considerable numbers of unscrupulous training companies secure huge amounts of money because they’re getting in the money for all the exam fees up-front and hoping that you won’t take them all. The majority of organisations will require you to sit pre-tests and with-hold subsequent exam entries from you until you’ve proven conclusively that you can pass – which actually leaves you with no guarantee at all. With average Prometric and VUE examinations coming in at around 112 pounds in the UK, it makes sense to pay as you go. It’s not in the student’s interests to fork out hundreds or thousands of pounds for exams when enrolling on a course. Consistent and systematic learning, coupled with quality exam simulation software is what will really see you through. Be on the lookout that any certifications that you’re considering will be commercially viable and are the most recent versions. The ‘in-house’ certifications provided by many companies are not normally useful in gaining employment. All the major IT organisations like Microsoft, Adobe, CompTIA or Cisco each have widely recognised proficiency programmes. These heavyweights can make sure you stand out at interview. Looking around, we find a plethora of job availability in computing. Picking the right one out of this complexity is a mammoth decision. I mean, without any background in the IT sector, how can you expect to know what some particular IT person fills their day with? Let alone decide on what training route would be most appropriate for ultimate success. To come through this, we need to discuss many definitive areas: * Your personality can play an important part – what gets you ‘up and running’, and what tasks ruin your day. * Do you hope to accomplish a key aim – for instance, working for yourself sometime soon? * Is your income higher on your wish list than other factors. * Considering the huge variation that IT encapsulates, it’s obvious you’ll need to be able to understand how they differ. * You’ll also need to think hard about the amount of time and effort you’ll put into your training. When all is said and done, the best way of checking this all out is through a meeting with someone that has enough background to be able to guide you. About the Author: (C) Jason Kendall. Hop over to LearningLolly.com for excellent advice on SQL Server Course and MCITP Course .
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